The Accuracy of China’s Grain Production Data: Evidence from Two County-level Case Studies

Ziping Wu and Zhifang Wang

Chapter 11 in China’s Agriculture at the Crossroads, 2000, pp 166-179 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Grain in China has been a topic of considerable interest throughout much of this century. In recent years there has been a series of international debates on whether China will be able to feed itself in the next century. Chinese government officials have felt compelled to argue the affirmative. To support their argument, they announced that farmland area in China is 40 per cent higher than reported in the China Statistical Yearbooks. The revised measure of farmland area of 2.095 billion mu is based on soil surveys in the period 1979–85 (Wu et al. 1992; Wu and Kirke 1993). The rationale for the announcement is that since China has a greater amount of farmland than had been reported, reported yield had been overstated and therefore agricultural potential is higher than previously thought.

Keywords: Winter Wheat; Real Yield; Correction Ratio; Production Team; Farmland Area (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333978108_11

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